2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What's so terrible about saying "the system is rigged"? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's that more and more wealth is getting concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. And that our party has concluded that, to get the support of those fewer and fewer people who have more and more wealth, its message has to be reduced to being progressive only on ONE set of issues...issues that are worthy, but which are nonthreatening and nontransformation, that are "safe" and will not lead to anything close to the ideas that
A) Those with more wealth should actually pay at least somewhat higher taxes,
B) there needs to be a continuing and expanded governmental role in addressing healthcare and at least alleviating poverty(we know now that charitable and voluntary efforts can't ever make a serious dent in that problem, because they are designed NOT to do so, but simply to give good "pr" to "the brand" and let celebrities pose with the poor kids they rented for the afternoon while affecting Christlike expressions);
C) If outsourcing, trade deals and automation put people out of good-paying work in this country, there is an obligation to create other good-paying work for those people and to make it as quick and easy and affordable as possible for those people to get training to do other jobs;
D) There's a moral and ethical obligation to make sure that no areas of the country turn into "job deserts", with people from those areas being forced to travel the country looking for ANY sort of work, not living anywhere long enough to have a home, a voice, or a vote;